couplan.
/ˈkʌplə/ colloquial (originally U.S.).
= ‘a couple of’ (see couple n. 7a).
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1906 H. Green At Actors' Boarding House 254 A coupla parties is come for rooms!
1934 D. L. Sayers Nine Tailors 276 He'd had nothing to eat..for a coupla days.
1965 H. C. Rae Skinner ii. xiii. 119 I'll manage to palm the thing off on some mug for a coupla quick quid profit.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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n.1906- make sound
- make southing
- make spare
- make speed
- make spoil of
- make sport
- make sport of
- make squeamish
- make stand
- make state
- make stay
- make stay of
- make stay upon
- make stick
- make stop of
- make store of
- make strange
- make strange at
- make strangeness
- make strength
- make stress
- make strife
- make strong running
- make stroy of
- make subject